Murdoch adds chairman's job: Rupert Murdoch has added...

August 20, 1991

Murdoch adds chairman`s job: Rupert Murdoch has added chairman to his titles at News Corp., the multinational media company of which he already is the chief executive and controlling shareholder. Murdoch, whose family owns 45 percent of News Corp., replaces Richard Searby, chairman since 1981, who retired to become News Corp.`s non-executive deputy chairman. Searby also becomes the non-executive chairman of subsidiaries in Australia and Hong Kong, the company said.